GT 710 or GT 730

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Hello. Im lloking for a graphic card that can be used on 1 samsung sync master(22" vga) for mostly office work and 1 UHD PHILIPS 43" 6100 series tv for watching Full HD movies and maybe some 4k movies. My setup is :
MB: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=472
CPU:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 x2 dual core 5200+ 2.60 GHz
RAM: 2GB
My choice is limited to these 3 graphic cards:
MSI GEFORCE GT710 2GBDDR3( https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GT-710-2GD3H-LP/Specification)
GIGABYTE PCX GEFORCE GT730 1GBDDR5(https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N730D5OC-1GI#sp)
GIGABYTE GEFORCE GT710 2GBDDR5 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N710D5-2GL#sp)
I think anyone of these cards can support Full HD movies, but will they support 4k movies. Are they compatible with my MB because i have pcie 2.0 x16 and they are x8?
Thank you.



 
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The only real difference between pcie 3.0 and 2.0 is the amount of bandwidth available. As is, even a gtx1080ti can't soak up the available bandwidth of 2.0 x8, never mind 2.0 x16. With any of the cards mentioned so far, when it comes to bandwidth usage you are basically equating throwing a hotdog down a hallway.

While the 730 is slightly more powerful graphics wise than the 710, the 730 is also only 1Gb, which will be very limiting in available office stuff/web tabs etc, while the gigabyte 710 is a 2Gb gddr5 card. I feel that would be a better option over the slower 2Gb gddr3 710.

Of course the gtx1030 would be by far the better option, just not the cheapest option, as it has native 4k support vrs the GT 710-740 which are only...

Phaaze88

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All three are compatible with your board and are fine for 4k movies if using hdmi(ver. 1.4 and later) or a displayport adapter.
Go with the 730. You can't go wrong with either really. They're all pretty close to one another in performance. You could also just go with whichever's the cheapest.
 
Neither has HDMI 2.0. You can try an active DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 adapter. Make sure it is active.

Personally, I'd go with a card with native HDMI 2.0b support. Which would be the GT 1030. Once you add an active adapter to a GT 710/730. You'll be getting pretty close to a GT 1030 cost wise.

As for hardware decoding. The GT 1030 should support nVidia PureVideo 8. So, it has full HEVC (h265) decoding support. It will also perform much better at h264 decoding. As far as I can tell the GT 710/730 only supports PureVideo 5.

If you are also encoding video.You'll need a GTX 1050 at minimum. As far as I can tell the GT 1030 does not support NVENC.
 


It should be fine, PCIe is backwards compatible. You can update your BIOS just in case it needs it. But I was running four GTX 1060 on an old P45 chipset board with PCIe 1.0.
 

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The only real difference between pcie 3.0 and 2.0 is the amount of bandwidth available. As is, even a gtx1080ti can't soak up the available bandwidth of 2.0 x8, never mind 2.0 x16. With any of the cards mentioned so far, when it comes to bandwidth usage you are basically equating throwing a hotdog down a hallway.

While the 730 is slightly more powerful graphics wise than the 710, the 730 is also only 1Gb, which will be very limiting in available office stuff/web tabs etc, while the gigabyte 710 is a 2Gb gddr5 card. I feel that would be a better option over the slower 2Gb gddr3 710.

Of course the gtx1030 would be by far the better option, just not the cheapest option, as it has native 4k support vrs the GT 710-740 which are only capable of 4k playback at 30Hz.
 
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